Data from a community sample of 718 Native American and 510 Hispanic veterans in the southwest and north central regions of the US estimated a lifetime prevalence of DSM-IV pathological gambling as 9.9% in the Native American veterans and as 4.3% in the Hispanic veterans59. In a study of 161 Northern Plains Native Americans compared with 102 non-Native Americans from the same region, 2.8% of the Native Americans and 1.6% of the non-Native Americans met lifetime DSM-III-R criteria for pathological gambling60. Using a cutoff score of 5 on the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS57) to indicate lifetime probable pathological gambling, 9.6% of the Native Americans were identified as problem gamblers compared to 5.6% of the non-Native Americans. One other study estimated the prevalence of pathological gambling in ethnic subgroups. Luczak and Wall18 assessed gambling behavior among 179 Chinese, 194 Korean, and 305 White college students from one university in California. Lifetime probable pathological gambling as indicated by the SOGs was significantly higher in Chinese (6%) and Koreans (7%) compared with Whites (2%).
